One of the UK's most senior police officers has called for new laws that would compel the public to give information to the police about gun crime - whether they want to or not. Bernard Hogan-Howe, the chief constable of Merseyside police and a contender to be next commissioner of the Met, said it was clear that more and more young people were getting involved in gun crime and that they were being protected by a wall of silence. He said the only way to address this was to adopt laws similar to those in Australia "where people have a duty to report information about gun crime to the police". He also believes the laws should extend to victims of gun crime who survive being shot but refuse to make a complaint because of fears of reprisals. "The challenge is: people who survive do not want to complain and the best witness is quite often the victim who can help provide a description and motive. By refusing to help it can put the investigation on to the back foot", he added. A fortnight ago Scotland Yard launched the hard-hitting "blood on your hands" campaign, aimed at turning children away from gun crime and encouraging them to speak to the police. It was unveiled on the day of the funeral of 15-year-old murder victim Billy Cox who was gunned down in south London, one of a number of shootings involving teenagers in recent weeks.

So what i feel is we should completely cooperate with the police on these things as it is for our benefit. We should report every other crime related to this. Remaining silent is the worst things that happens. This way both the criminal and we ourseleves are responsible for the crime. We should never keep quiet on such things. Stricter laws can be implemented and the gun crime rate can be extensively brought down. Recent bloodbaths through Gun has brought the danger which lurks around. Many times these things are result of discrimination which should be totally stopped as we are a developed nation and these things dont suit us at all. The gang concept has to be completely brought down as they are the ones which are source of such crimes mostly. Even mental illness of people sometimes result in such ghastly acts, so we should help government in imposing strict lawsfor Gun Crimes so as  for safeguarding out interests.

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